financial institutions (IFIs). For multilateral development banks like the World Bank, their central mission, the promotion of … growth and the reduction of poverty, is clear. The steps toward fulfilling this mission in a changing world are also … our thinking both on why we have IFIs in the first place, and the role that they should play in a changing world. …

- the advent of a radically different world economy, and the explosion of the world's population. As these forces are … unleashed, the world's nation-states - weakened by their increasingly unhelpful territorial and hierarchical constructs - will …

in all of its member countries, not only in its poorer members. It does lend throughout the world, but most of its … lending is within the European Union (EU). A significant share is within some of the world's wealthiest countries. There is …

oil prices. Although all approaches provide useful insights on how the world oil market functions, they suffer from major …

world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results …